Japanese Box Office, October 30-31

ANN writes: "Heartcatch Precure! Hana no Miyako de Fashion Show…Desu ka!?, the ninth film from the Pretty Cure/Precure magical girl franchise, opened at #2 on Kogyo Tsushinsha's box chart. On Box Office Mojo's chart, it opened at #3 with US$2,444,060 on 163 screens.

Umizaru: The Last Message, the third live-action film based on Shuho Sato's manga about the Japanese Coast Guard, dropped from #1 to #4. On Box Office Mojo's chart, it earned the equivalent of US$1,740,485 on 467 screens in its seventh weekend. It now has a total of US$88,741,768.

The Lady Shogun and Her Men, the live-action film adaptation of Fumi Yoshinaga's Ōoku: The Inner Chambers manga, fell from #5 to #8 in its fifth weekend on Kogyo Tsushinsha's chart. (It fell to #9 on Box Office Mojo's chart.) It made US$817,933 on 310 screens for a gross-to-date of US$24,112,659."